Category Archives: presentations skills (group)

The lessons we learned: This group were generally fairly comfortable already with speaking and videoing themselves. This could be because they were MA students studying entrepreneurship. They all found using the Flip camera fine The biggest improvement was how the … Continue reading →

Our objective for the DIAL online presentation skills community was to work out ways of developing video presentation skills with students. Working with Chitra Buckley, the course director of MA Fashion Entrepreneurship at the London College of Fashion, we are aiming to create … Continue reading →

We’re making a video as one of the resources for the video presentation skills project. This is the provisional structure: Open with a clip of LCF. Intro of people involved in project: Chitra, me, Pei-Chin, Chris Clip of group activity, … Continue reading →

For the last workshop of the video presentation skills training, following on from the second workshop, the students returned to watch the videos that they had produced – before and after the workshops – and provide peer feedback. Each participant … Continue reading →

The second workshop in the video presentation skills training follows on from the first workshop, Workshop 1, part 1 – filming one minute video pitches without training. For this element of the video presentation skills training, we collaborated with Student Enterprise … Continue reading →

After the elevator pitch training from SEE outlined in the blog post Workshop 2, part 1 – training on how to do a video elevator pitch, we did some exercises to put these skills into practice. Participants got into pairs … Continue reading →

We did some preparation for the video presentation skills workshops with a group of Fashion Entrepreneurship MA students from LCF, run in conjunction with Chitra Buckley, course leader, DIAL and SEE. In order to prepare, they were given a brief … Continue reading →

This blog post follows on from Workshop 1, part 1 – filming one minute video pitches without training, where the students practiced recording a one minute pitch using Flip cameras. We then had a group feedback session where participants discussed … Continue reading →

The first stage of the workshop with Fashion Entrepreneurship MA students from LCF took place on Wednesday 25 April at High Holborn, in the lecture theatre. There were 6 participants, all female. My first impression was that this was a … Continue reading →

I’m very pleased to be helping set up an online community for presentation skills as part of the DIAL project. I am an ideal guinea pig for any experimentation. I have been terrified of public speaking for as long … Continue reading →